tv Inside Out BBC News November 18, 2018 12:30am-1:01am GMT
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the headlines: president donald trump has visited california to survey the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state's history. he praised the efforts of local police, politicians, and the teams searching for survivors. the camp fire in northern california has killed at least 71 people. about 250,000 people have taken part in demonstrations across france against a further increase in fuel tax and the rising cost of living. 0ne demonstrator was killed when a panicking driver drove into protesters. there were more than 100 injuries nationwide. a senior member of the british prime minister's cabinet has called for changes to her brexit plans. andrea leadsom, who is the leader of the commons, said there was potential to improve a draft deal before the prime minister presents it to european leaders next week. now on bbc news, it's inside out. hello and welcome to inside out
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south—west, stories and investigations from where you live. tonight: a search for heroes. finding the last resting place of the makeshift minesweepers. this is the makeshift minesweepers. this is the last piece of the world war i wrecks that haven't been found in falmouth, just nice to have that complete. also tonight: we investigate the tragic consequences of mental health misdiagnosis. it's ha rd to of mental health misdiagnosis. it's hard to live with what i'm dealing with, day in, day out, and ijust wa nt with, day in, day out, and ijust want a chance to be better. ijust wa nt want a chance to be better. ijust want a chance to be better. ijust want a chance to live a normal life. and the dorset town that has it all except young people. the house prices are pretty much through the roof. why is bridport so old? people are spotting how great bridport is, and they're moving
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here to retire, and then they're living longer than ever. this is inside out south west. in a quiet backwater on the fal estuary, a team of divers is preparing to investigate a mystery, one that has puzzled historians since the first world war. they are trying to find the last resting place of 11 men who died protecting this stretch of coast. they weren't soldiers or full—time sailors, but fishermen. this is the little—known story of the british trawlermen who during the first world war became minesweepers. they were a band of men who would pay a huge price for their bravery. just as it is today, in 1914, falmouth was a vital deep water port
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in a strategic position for ships navigating atlantic trade routes. to challenge britain's superior naval power, the germans produced thousands of u—boats. they were effective as torpedo boats, but even more deadly as mine layers, leaving highly explosive charges in british shipping lanes. britain responded by pressing more than 400 into service as makeshift minesweepers. they were small, manoeuvrable, and their crews knew local waters. but this was a new type of warfare. there was no handbook or training. where they knew there was a minefield, they would send these ships in pairs, with effectively ropes strung between them, with knots along the length of the rope. and the idea was this would catch
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the mooring of the mine. and once you had snagged something in it, the ships would steer in parallel and zigzag, forcing the mine between the two knots, and then it would be severed and destroyed by rifle fire, generally. for trawlermen, life would have been extremely tense. they really were in imminent danger at any point, and never knowing where that would come from leads to a huge build—up of tension. they had an extremely high mortality rate, so you've got nearly a 19% chance of dying doing this work, which is higher than if you're front—line infantry. in december 1916, a cornish trawler, the st ives, hit a mine and sank in falmouth bay. all 11 crew, local trawlermen and naval reservists, were lost. 0ne name is remembered at kimberley park's war memorial in falmouth,
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but the wreck of the vessel has never been found. diver mark melbourne and historian dave gibbons are now on a mission to find it, starting with the original telegram that reported the loss. and in it he states quite clearly it was blown up by a mine, west—south—west of st anthony. we have scaled off two miles west—south—west, approximately there. so we are somewhere off of penance point. now, i've dived there extensively in the past. i've also dived looking for the st ives. and i've not found any information, any parts, any pieces, that are relevant. they have also obtained a copy of the official war office report of the sinking, and this gives the location not as west—south—west, but as south of st anthony. only one letter different, but more than a mile from the site where divers have been searching for a century. could it be that a simple typing
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error has sent generations of divers to the wrong place? and what would you expect to see of the st ives? well, the main thing probably would be boiler parts, boilers and parts, because it's going to be a small boiler. small plates with lots of holes in it. if it's intact, it will probably be five, six foot in diameter. if the team's theory is correct there is a challenge in store. there is already a known and significant wreck at this newly identified site. in 1940, an oil carrier hit a mine in falmouth bay. after partially sinking, she was still a hazard to shipping, and had to be blown up by the royal navy. it could be that the caroni river sank directly on top of the st ives, and the divers will have to search
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for clues underneath this massive wreck, or the explosion to sink her may have mangled both ships together. convinced that the two ships have sunk on the same site, the team heads out to falmouth bay. we're in the middle of the wreckage there, the trouble is it's spread out over a long area. i want to go to the most northerly part. can wreckage from the st ives be found amongst the remains of the other vessel, a ship nearly four times its size? the divers soon find the wreck of the caroni river. the site is almost 100 metres across, the twisted metal evidence of the huge explosion that sent her to the sea bed. decades of tides, corrosion, silt and marine life have taken their toll on the site. it's going to be hard to distinguish the wreckage from two different ships. the site is covered
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in tons of netting. cutting it away so the divers can see what's underneath could take weeks. frustrated, the divers returned to the surface. they are convinced the wreckage of the st ives is down there. at 700 tons, it is a massive thing. it is there somewhere. it is just exactly pinpointing it we won't able to do today. it's late summer, and the divers are once again heading out into falmouth bay. another diver has told mark about another section of wreck.
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satellite navigation takes the team to the spot. we've covered that bit so well now, i'm thinking it's got to be in this place. finding the separate section of the vessel from 1940s should be easy. finding the wreck of the much smaller st ives will be much harder. two, one, go. and, just minutes into the dive, mark finds what he has been looking for — the distinctive end plates of exactly the type of steam boiler that would have powered the st ives. the holes in these distinctive perforated slabs of steel would have held the rods that heated the water to make steam.
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this wreckage could never have been from the 1940s caroni river. mark is convinced this is the last resting place of the st ives and her crew. good to see it, yes, yes. i'm glad we've found it at last. it has taken a while to find it, it's such a big area to search. it's nice to have found it at last. among the wreckage, mark has even found coal that might have fuelled the steam boiler. this is coal, could well have — it's right next to where the boiler was. they will visit the wreck one more time, to pay their last respects to the 11 who died in a bloody but forgotten chapter of the first world war. it's just nice to have found it at last. it could have taken forever, and we still haven't seen the whole wreck. i'm happy that we have found it. next we head to west dorset,
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and a place once voted by bbc viewers as one of the top ten best market towns in britain. but if it's that good, why are so many young people moving out? we sent our reporter claire jones to find out. a stone's throw from the world—famous jurassic coast lies bridport. who wouldn't want to live here? now i'm sort of retired, and i've got my bus pass. i canjump on the bus to bridport. we're trying to enjoy our last years as much as we possibly can while we've got the opportunity. i like the buildings, and hopefully my car will not get broken into. that's what i like about bridport. and you can see their point. bridport has a lot to offer. the town and its historic harbour are showcased by some of the best scenery in the south—west.
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the place is steeped in history. its rope and net—making dates back to the 13th century. it's easy to see why so many sing bridport‘s praises. and yet, like west dorset as a whole, the town is facing an economic crisis — a crisis rooted in the changing shape of its population. more than one in three here are over 65. that's forecast to grow to one in four in the next 20 years. what's happening is people are spotting how great bridport is, moving here to retire, and living longer than ever. but that's only part of what is going on. mark is bridport born and bred. he works at the local pub, and is settled here. but it's reckoned 3,000 people of working age will move out of dorset in the next ten years,
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and rob's son eli might be one of them. if the house prices were lowere, if there weren't so many people buying second homes, just to have somewhere to holiday, bridport would be better for people of the young generation. a lot of people have said they might have to move away, even just across the border. it's much cheaper. such arguments are nothing new, as rob knows well. i can't see any future, job—wise. not the present way it's going, anyway. 37 years ago, he was filmed in a documentary about the changing face of his hometown. i'm hoping to move away from bridport. there's not really sort of anything for the young people. that's why people turn into vandals,
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there's nothing you can do. people have got nothing better to do. more and more retired people were moving in, pushing up the cost of housing. unemployment was heading for 12%. it was a tough time to be a teenager. all there is to do is go down to the youth club and play badminton, or stay at home, unless you have the money to go to the pub. young rob escaped to london, but not for long. i thought london, the big city, would be bright lights, and all this, and it wasn't. it wasn't what i thought or hoped. i came back. i realised what i'd missed in the first place. this is where rob eventually found work as a young man — the town's biggest employer, then and now. the business has changed hands over the years, but nets and ropes have been made
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on the site for generations. these days, it is high—tech stuff. the military is a big customer, so the business needs graduate engineers, exactly the sort of young people who could boost the economy of bridport. we have to offer a good package, good benefits, get them to visit the facility and see what we do, and actually getting them here is quite hard. 0nce once they are here we stand a good chance of attracting them. it's a difficult environment to get young and skilled engineers. there are opportunities elsewhere in the country. if bridport owes its past to one kind of net in the future is in another. this is the old library, now it is a beautifully restored cafe and sheared workspace. it's home to crowdfunder,
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high profile internet—based business that helps good causes raise money. the founder wants to raise interest in bridport. we need to attract and be part of the attraction of other businesses coming in, and making that decision or realisation that you can run a leading digital business from anywhere outside of one of the major cities of the uk, and by us being here we can attract other businesses to do the same. nobody wants the tough guy and bring that experience and knowledge back to the town. that is exactly what rob hopes for young eli. he has had a good start in life, teaching wise, now the ball is in his court to do
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what he wants to do. if he had to move away i would support him, as any parent would. it is a condition that more people suffer from than you may think and it carries a high risk of suicide. borderline personality disorder is misunderstood and stigmatised. as the government pledges more money for mental health services patients and clinicians see it is time for change. joanna, from west devon, has been struggling with mental health issues for years. she has experienced mood swings, often linked with problems in relationships. i have been treated for depression for as long as i can remember, which at times that has had that numbing effect and helped me get
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through, but i knew that was not the entire issue. at times the depth and intensity of her mood swings have brought on dark thoughts and dangerous behaviour. it is exhausting. iam not i am not feeling like this occasionally. usually, it is all day, every day, battling with different emotions. sometimes i do not even know what my emotions are, they are so overwhelming. other times i have thought, i cannot live like this any more, day in, day out, being this tired and exhausted. after years of taking antidepressants joanna researched her symptoms herself, and after seeing a sympathetic gp was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. it's often marked by attachment issues — like joanna has. it is thought bpd affects one in 100 of us,
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amongst the most serious sufferers there is an estimated 7—10% suicide risk. a recognised treatment is something cold dialectical behaviour therapy, a form of intense counselling, but instead juana was offered a self help course. i was referred to self—help, there was nothing about intensive therapy that i was expecting from what i had read and heard about. it is frustrating. it is difficult to know that there is stuff out there but to feel like, you cannot cure it, but there is proof that this treatment can help, i just want this opportunity to be able to make myself better and live a better life. long waits are one issue. misdiagnosis is another problem. one thing that's not thought to help people with this condition
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is going into hospital. this consultant psychiatrist left the nhs last year, he believes the diagnosis is often wrongly used as a way of managing access to expensive emergency beds. i have used the description psychiatry‘s dirty little secret. a phenomenon which occurs by clinical staff making a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder as justification for not admitting to hospital. this is rising in the context of tremendous pressure on beds in the nhs mental health services at the moment, there are not enough beds to support the people who need them. clinicians look for reasons to justify not admitting patients to hospital, one way is to make a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. because we know that people with that diagnosis do not always do well in hospital. unfortunately, diagnosis
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is being used inappropriately, in my view, and inaccurately, leading to people that may benefit from admission to hospital being excluded from services. carol was diagnosed last year, from a medical background herself, she was not convinced they had the correct diagnosis. when i went in to see the doctor initially i was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. i felt before i went in they had an idea of what they thought of me before i went there, i did not feel i was listened to. when i came away from the appointment and received a letter summarising the appointment, it had incorrect information on the letter, for example, around self harm and things i had not had. and symptoms that i did not have. after one year with the diagnosis carol was told that she had bipolar or manic depression. it is a different condition than the other condition,
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-- is --isa —— is a different condition from bpd. there is a hyperactive or manic phase that tends not to happen with bpd. sadly this does not always happen accurately, sometimes the diagnosis is not made inaccurately, i have witnessed in my experience, people experiencing harm as a result of having the wrong diagnosis. 0n at least two occasions, people have died following incorrect attribution of diagnosis and support, as a result of being excluded from mainstream services. carol is angry at the incorrect diagnosis. living with the wrong diagnosis just meant that i did not get the right treatment. it meant that i had extreme mood swings for those two years, swinging between episodes of mania and severe depression, which affected my behaviour and the way that i lived my life,
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which then impacted on every aspect of my life. and the treatment for borderline personality disorder does not at all treat bipolar. even though i was having that it did not treat all sold anything that was going on for me. carol is now on medication which controls her symptoms and she is able to hold down a responsiblejob. here at oxford university department of psychiatry they are researching both conditions to try and improve diagnosis and work towards more effective treatment. this doctor was part of a team that looked at how consultants diagnosed the condition. in routine clinical assessments, the clinicians were not applying all the diagnostic criteria for the disorders
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that they were assessing. despite that many are still happy to make a diagnosis. that is not to say the diagnosis was right or wrong, but it was difficult to know what it was based on, and getting the diagnosis rates and understanding it is important for treatment. kate's team is looking into the two mood disorders. volunteers, some healthy, some with borderline personality disorder, some with bipolar, healthy people on the left—hand graph showed clear periods when they were asleep, those with borderline personality disorder short random periods of activity and rest. people with borderline personality disorder can be clearly distinguished on the ability of mood as reported using spiteful, also a distinctly disturbed pattern of very distinct from healthy people and from other psychiatric disorders.
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that is interesting. it is something specific to the diagnosis. it is something that one might be able to cheat and targets. something that people with the disorder report as a problem. this enables us to do something new that has the potential to change things. back in devon, joanna still has little idea of when she will get the therapy she says is long overdue. ifeel like i have got so much potential. my family and friends love me and they do not want to see me throwing my life away, but it is hard to live with what i am dealing with the end, day out, i want the chance to be better and live a normal life. from clinicians and sufferers alike
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the plea is for greater understanding of and greater resources for this complex condition. with mental health higher on the political agenda they hope that that condition attracts the funding needed for effective diagnosis and treatment. that is all for this week. join us again next week when we revisit some of our best stories of 2018. see you then. hello again. most of us have got
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more in the way of sunshine to look forward to for the second half of the weekend. what a glorious into the weekend. what a glorious into the day it was yesterday. this was the day it was yesterday. this was the scene the highlands. 0ur weather patterns are all interlinked. what happened across north iceland, near the arctic circle, was incredible yesterday when we got up to 70 celsius, 1a above normal. this set in place a chain reaction with that warm air moving into the arctic, the arctic response by pushing out colder across northern europe and thatis colder across northern europe and that is moving its way towards the united kingdom. it will get much colder over the next four days. this is how alday starts today. for most of us we have clear skies. there is a little cloud around the vale of york and eastern areas of scotland. a chilly one if you are heading outside of the next hour or two. temperatures into the low signal figures up and down the country. and in some of the deeper valleys of the highlands, the grampians, there are
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patches of frost around in the countryside as well. a chilly start to the day but a gloriously sunny one. high pressure is firmly in charge. we continue to drag in this dry airfrom the new charge. we continue to drag in this dry air from the new continent for the time being. it means not much in the time being. it means not much in the way of cloud. most areas will have sunshine from dawn until dusk with barely a cloud in the sky. the exceptions, east of scotland through the vale of york, that cloud over time will turn too thin and break up with sunshine coming through. that isa with sunshine coming through. that is a much sunnier day in northern ireland were yesterday was pretty cloudy. as well as the sunshine we will have some cool winds blowing. coolest across eastern and southern parts of england. temperatures near normalfor parts of england. temperatures near normal for the parts of england. temperatures near normalfor the time of parts of england. temperatures near normal for the time of year. is between ten and 12 degrees. skipping ahead to monday, more cloud across the united kingdom. we will start to see some patches of light rain and risen across the eastern coast of scotland, eastern areas of england. temperatures are starting to fall away. the really cold air doesn't get to our shores until we get on in tissue state. look at these
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temperatures, 6—a degrees celsius. cloud around with outbreaks of light rain drizzle. the golds there for england and wales. scotland and northern ireland calling down, the best of any limited sunshine across the north and west. the weather is set to get colder over the next few days. with the stars to arrive towards the middle part of the week. kind of sees a high ofjust by degrees as we look at the weather picture into wednesday. —— cardiff. that is your forecast. this is bbc news, i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: president trump has been meeting with emergency workers and victims of california's worst ever wildfires. more than 70 people have died in the blaze. more than a quarter of a million people havejoined protests across france in anger at rising fuel prices. hello and welcome to bbc news.
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president trump is in california to see the damage caused by the us state's worst ever wildfires. visiting the town of paradise, which was largely destroyed, mr trump said everybody had done incredible work to respond to the disaster. he also revisited his claim that poor forest management was to blame.
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